Godfrey Cripps (19 October 1865 in
Mussoorie
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,
India
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– 27 July 1943 in
Adelaide
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, Australia) was a
cricket
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er who played in one
Test
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for
South Africa
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in 1891–92.
Life and career
Born in India and educated at
Cheltenham College
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in England, Cripps played just four
first-class cricket
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matches, all of them in South Africa. A middle-order right-handed batsman, his first
first-class appearance was in the South African Test side in March 1892 that lost to
Walter Read
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's
English touring team – which included the Australian players
Billy Murdoch and
John Ferris. Cripps was one of four South Africans who were making their first-class debuts in this Test match.
A season later, Cripps played twice for
Western Province
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, scoring a century in the second match against
Griqualand West
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. His final first-class game was the 1893–94
Currie Cup
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final for Western Province against
Natal
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which his side won inside two days.
In 1894, he was vice-captain of the
South African tour team to England, but no first-class matches were played on the tour. At the time he was working as a cashier for the
African Banking Corporation
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.
"Pavilion Gossip"
''Cricket'', 24 May 1894, p. 154.
Cripps was a cousin of the British Cabinet minister
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Sir Stafford Cripps
Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (24 April 1889 – 21 April 1952) was a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and diplomat.
A wealthy lawyer by background, Cripps first entered Parliament at a by-election in January 1931, and was one of a ...
. He had been a deputy sheriff
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in the Cape Colony
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before going to Australia some 30 years before his death. At the time of his death in July 1943 he was living at Simpson Road in the Adelaide suburb of Wattle Park. He had been a schoolmaster in Australia, initially in Queensland
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and then at St Peter's College, Adelaide
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, until 10 years before his death.
References
External links
*
Godfrey Cripps
at CricketArchive
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1865 births
1943 deaths
South Africa Test cricketers
South African cricketers
Western Province cricketers
British people in colonial India
British emigrants to Australia